Eric Bergstrom

Background

About Eric Bergstrom

Eric Bergstrom, is the Chief Executive Officer/President of Bergstrom Capital Advisors, Inc.("BCA") and Chief Investment Officer of Dakota Investments, LLC ("Dakota"), located in Newport Coast, California. Eric formed BCA and Dakota in 2001, after 13 years as a CPA and a founder of Ernst & Young-Kenneth Leventhal & Co.’s Real Estate Capital Markets Group (“EYKL”), where he led all real estate capital market assignments in the western United States, including the largest private institutional equity placement in the firm’s history. BCA is a discrete real estate capital markets and strategic advisory firm that provides professional and highly responsive capital market execution for real estate owners, high net worth individuals/families, and developers in all commercial (e.g, office, industrial, retail, multifamily, self-storage, and hospitality), single family residential, and resort land uses. In addition to the United States, BCA has executed assignments in Canada (British Columbia and Alberta), Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sinaloa), and Costa Rica, since 2005. BCA’s unique combination of 36 consecutive years of dedicated real estate experience and technical skills are what differentiates us from brokerage firms, specifically: 1) Established track record of delivering technical expertise in real estate capital markets, strategy, and financial/accounting to the exacting standards of clients and partners of Ernst & Young-Kenneth Leventhal & Co. for 13 years has allowed BCA to independently exceed our clients' expectations for the past 23 years. 2) Thirty-six consecutive years of dedicated real estate experience throughout multiple economic cycles allows us to provide our clients with unmatched perspective and insights. 3) Capital market and strategic advisory assignments executed for all real estate product types. 4) Experience with numerous complex, confidential, and time sensitive assignments (e.g, acquisitions, developments, recapitalizations, dispositions, etc.). 5) Direct and long standing relationships with capital sources and real estate professionals throughout North America, allows us immediate access to decision-makers. 6) A single point of contact providing this experience to our valued clients. Dakota is a wholly-owned private equity investment entity that makes direct real estate acquisitions, joint venture and preferred equity investments, and provides credit enhancements on its own account and in conjunction with other high net worth individuals/family offices.